The Move...

Well, I've got a few moments to show some photos & tell some stories...

The sun is shining & both of us have to head off to work in a short time. It's a good feeling to be in the house & it was a good feeling to know that yesterday was the last day of paying rent & today is the first day of entering "mortgage world" - not that we are paying a mortgage just yet, we have to finish the rest of the house & finalize things with the bank, but it's all ours now!

This is what the living room in the old place had looked like for many weeks. I packed up a lot of items, moved stuff out of our storage spaces & the only place to pile it was in here. There was a path that lead from the couch to the TV...ha, ha, ha.




This is the old living room now emptied except for the TV unit. Ha, ha, ha. I still have to do a massive amount of cleaning - cobwebs are all over the place! It was amazing to see the old place empty after having lived here for 4 years!





On Saturday we had 3 people show up to help us move. Malcom on the left & Omar (a co-worker of Phil's) on the right. This looks like it's the last load of the day, but they hauled some really big truck loads. It was a very busy & fast-paced time - I was in the rental house & Phil was in the new house.



This is also at the end of the day - our third helper was Steve on the far right. A few neighbour's stopped by for a chat & a beer: Roy - in the hat, lives directly behind our new house, & Darry, another neighbour down the way.


Phil has been learning a whole new set of skills. This time he was a plumber hooking up the kitchen sink & the bathroom sink. He's done a very good job - there are no leaks!








Our electrician came in for a couple hours of work to finish setting up the electrical for the lower floor. There were a few set-backs, such as: the hot-water tank didn't have power, the bedroom closet light turned on the main light, the washing machine plug didn't have power, the baseboard heater in the bathroom didn't have power, a plug in the kitchen was located in the wrong place.....these were all relatively easy to fix. In the photo, Phil & Brian are fixing the kitchen plug. It was placed too far over - so would have been behind the stove. I thought they were going to cut a huge hole in the wall, but it's a very small hole - easy to patch up & the new plug is in the right spot.

This is the vanity unit we picked up at Home Depot. Stunning!! We worked quite late last night putting in some more bathroom items - such as towel racks & just need to hang the mirror & figure out some sort of storage unit & the bathroom is done. Well, except for the door. We just have a blanket hanging over the opening for now.....





This is the pine furniture for the bedroom. It's darker than I had thought, so I'm going to try to re-finish it to lighten it up.






Well, now that the hot water is working, it's time to get going on washing dishes & taking a shower. I spent the day yesterday cleaning the metal doors, the stove (which needs a coat of tremclad paint...) the fridge (we managed to flip the doors around too) the floors (I put down some mats so we can hopefully keep the dirt down) & some of the decks outside.

Phil has a truck load of stuff in the truck & a few more items left in the house. I hope we have time this week to finish that off. John - who is moving upstairs, is coming back on the weekend to do his part of the move, so we have a few extra days. We are just both tired of having to go over there....but it won't take us very long.

I'm off to cook for the Coast Guard RHIOT course for the next 8 days. Thankfully, it's only 6 people, but it's spilt shifts - early mornings & late evenings, so a little difficult to get into too much work over here....Phil's lucky that he has sunshine for the beginning of his work. He probably gets to hang out on the beach & go for boat rides for the next few weeks!!